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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2022
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Allie K. Watfa, Champaign, IL (US);

Christopher Lin, East Brunswick, NJ (US);

Denis D. Avila, Broadlands, VA (US);

Jordan Dao, Roanoke, TX (US);

Michael Antony Raj, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Michael D. Hanson, Millington, NJ (US);

Harold Fisher, The Colony, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G06F 18/2132 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06393 (2013.01); G06F 18/2132 (2023.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are techniques for managing activity notifications and determining incident scores for a plurality of locations indicating a level of vulnerability to damage or service disruption of an item of utility infrastructure. In an aspect, a method can include receiving an activity notification including an activity location; determining a location incident score for the activity location based a location-score heatmap; determining an activity notification disposition based on the incident score; and transmitting a message including the disposition. In another aspect a method can include training a location scoring model based on features from combined records including historical activity notifications and incident reports corresponding to a plurality of locations.


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